【Illustrator】 CHAN×CO

CHAN×CO (pronounced chan-ko) is an amateur male illustrator. However, he has become very well-known in the Vocaloid world for his very cute and distinctive chibi illustrations. Some random facts about him is that he likes AMANO Tsukiko’s songs, lives in Chiba prefecture, and uses a Wacom Intuos 3 in a Windows XP environment. Also, despite producing such cute stuff, he is indeed male. He is part of ZANEEDS a Vocaloid music group led by composer ZANIO, as their illustrator.

His chibi style speaks for itself as it is actually instantly recognizable, but his regular, serious attempt drawings are also easily distinguishable. They are characterized by very clean lines, relatively vibrant colours, and kind of an anime-style solid shading and lighting, but with a little less contrast between shades to make it seem smoother. He rarely draws backgrounds for his pictures, and usually paints on a single colour canvas. To put it shortly, everything abut his style screams clean and sleek. However, he sometimes wanders out of his normal style and puts out some very quality work, such as this popular picture.

Website: http://www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/~insidebox/
Pixiv: http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=35693
Piapro: http://piapro.jp/chan
Twitter: http://twitter.com/chan_co

【Lyrics】 ボカラン詐欺 (Vocaloid Ranking Fraud)

That song everyone is addicted to.

This post consists of four parts:
1. Uploader’s comment
2. Original lyrics
3. Transliteration
4. Translation (+Notes on context)

Click on the song title to hear the song on Youtube, or you can click here to hear it on nicovideo. My translation might be a little messy so if you have any corrections just leave and comment and I’ll change it. Thanks!

うp主のコメント：
うp主の母でございます。
この度は、病弱な息子ではございますが、初めてのうpだと楽しそうでございます。
みなさま、どうか何卒、何卒。。。息子の動画をよろしくお願いいたします。

Uploader’s comment:
I am the uploader’s mother.
My son, who at this time is in poor health, is happy to present to you his first uploaded work.
Please, everyone, I beg of you, please…Support my son’s video.

「ぼからン詐欺」
作詞：パイパンP
作曲：パイパンP
編曲：パイパンP
ボーカル：初音ミク　＆　ざにおロイド

この人殺し
この人殺し　Yeah

「母さん。僕、この曲がボカランで一位になったら」
「手術を受けるよ、勇気が湧いてくるような・・・そんな気がするんだ。母さん」

この人殺し
この人殺し　Yeah

何卒何卒何卒何卒・・・

どうかみなさま　何卒
どうかみなさま　何卒
マイリスをお願いいたします
マイリスをお願いいたします　Hu-

みなさまに　マイリスをしていただけないと
病弱な息子は手術を受けることができません
みなさまに　マイリスをしていただけないと
病弱な息子が死んでしまうかもしれません

この人殺し
この人殺し　Yeah

“BOKARAN Sagi“
Lyrics: PAIPAN P
Compose: PAIPAN P
Arrange: PAIPAN P
Vocals: Hatsune Miku & zanioid

Kono hitogoroshi
Kono hitogoroshi Yeah

“Kaa-san. Boku, kono kyoku ga BOKARAN de ichii ni nattara”
“Shurutsu wo ukeru yo, yuuki ga waitekuru youna…sonna ki ga surun da. Kaa-san.”

Kono hitogoroshi
Kono hitogoroshi Yeah

Nanitozo nanitozo nanitozo nanitozo…

Douka minasama nanitozo
Douka minasama nanitozo
MAIRISU wo onegai itashimasu
MAIRISU wo onegai itashimasu Hu-

Minasama ni MAIRISU wo shite itadakenaito
Byoujyaku na musuko wa shujutsu wo ukeru koto ga dekimasen
Minasama ni MAIRISU wo shite itadakenaito
Byoujyaku na musuko wa shujutsu wo ukeru koto ga dekimasen

Kono hitogoroshi
Kono hitogoroshi Yeah

“Vocaloid Ranking Fraud“
Lyrics: PAIPAN P
Compose: PAIPAN P
Arrange: PAIPAN P
Vocals: Hatsune Miku & zanioid

This murderer
This murderer Yeah

“Mom. If this song gets number one on the Vocaloid rankings,
I’ll go for surgery, facing it with all my courage…That’s what I’m planning to do, mom.”

This murderer
This murderer Yeah

I beg of you, I beg of you, I beg of you, I beg of you…

Please, everyone, I beg of you
Please, everyone, I beg of you
Please Mylist this video
Please Mylist this video o-

If everyone doesn’t mylist this video
Then my son won’t be able to go for surgery
If everyone doesn’t mylist this video
Then my son won’t be able to go for surgery

This murderer
This murderer Yeah

Notes on context:

• Vocaloid Ranking – Ranking of Vocaloid songs based on points gained from views, comments, and Mylist count.
• Mylist – Nicovideo equivalent of Youtube favourites. The more Mylist count a video has, the more popular it is, and is usually the best measure of how much people like a video because they want to keep it in their records.
• This murderer – You, the viewer, if you don’t Mylist the video.

Things I Am Excited About 【July Ep2】

It might not look like it, but this post took a very long time to compile because WordPress’s editor is clunky as hell. ARGH.

Illustrators

Click on image for source (Danny Choo)

• nagimiso.sys’s VN02 Hatsune Miku design (from iroha(sasaki)’s MOON REMIXES PV) is being turned into a figure by Max Factory. No release date yet.
• huke< is doing the character designs for Steins;gate, a new visual novel developed by Nitroplus and 5pb. .
• 金子一馬 (KANEKO Kazuma) back to doing character designs (finally) for Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, a new installment for the DS.
• 曽我部修司 (SOGABE Shuji) changed the header image on his blog, which now features Sanjo Shinobu, a new character from Senko no Ronde DUO.
• 三輪士郎 (MIWA Shirow), huke, and redjuice have mostly completed their covers for their respective (individual) Comiket 76 release(s).

Music

• ざにお’s (zanio, aka パイパンP) new gag(?) song, ボカラン詐欺 (Vocaloid Ranking Fraud), is very funny and addictive. リツカ (RITSUKA) even did a cover for it lolol.
• OneRoom (aka ジミーサムP)’s first full Vocaloid album Toy Box, released on July 29th with cover art by ゆのみ (yunomi).
• cosMo (aka 暴走P), is participating in DEBUTANTE 4 and changes name to Storyteller. His entry is titled ANTI THE∞HOLiC.
• Persona 4 Vocal Selection in high quality with very accurate Japanese translation of the English lyrics.
• 君の知らない物語 (Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari) finally gets an animated sequence as the ending theme of Bakemonogatari, and also has an official PV video preview up. I’m assuming the latter will be what’s on the limited First Press edition DVD of the single release.